Styles taught: Classical/Opera, Musical Theatre, Commercial Contemporary Music.

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Add this exciting option: 

Learn Vocal Improvisation

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Vocal Improvisation is as natural as sparking a conversation yet it can seem impossible when you don't know where to start! 

 

I teach adults of all ages and levels.

Whether you are coming for professional development, or to enjoy the benefits of singing as a lifelong recreational activity I can help you attain one or more of the following goals:

- Prepare CEGEP, University or choral  auditions

-Prepare for recording sessions, live shows and touring

- Develop a sound and reliable approach to singing

- Release muscular tension that is interfering with your singing

- Find your full true expressive voice

- Learn the differences between opera/classical and contemporary singing

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Since 1993, I have been teaching singers of all ages and levels. My approach to teaching singing is ever evolving as I continue to develop as a performer, teacher, and student of the voice. In individual and group lessons, I combine my experience as an improviser, with my roots as a singer of popular, country, folk, and musical theatre, and 30 years of formal classical singing and training to meet the individual needs and artistic goals of each person I work with.

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Individual voice lessons run for 60 minutes.

 

Through structured vocal exercises I aim to help you understand how your voice works:

• Coordinate postural alignment and breathing for singing

• Free unnecessary tension

• Expand overall vocal range

• Develop vocal ease and flexibility

• Develop power and endurance

• Acquire clear, artistic and lyric diction that is stylistically appropriate

• Develop a more focused and resonant timbre

• Use your practice time efficiently

• Develop reliable strategies for formal and/or informal performance

• Learn how to warm up and cool down your voice

• Develop overall musicality

• Care for your voice in everyday life

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When preparing music I will offer you strategies to:

• Apply vocal techniques learned to the repertoire you are singing

• Set goals and manage practice time efficiently

• Memorize your music

• Prepare and research your music

• (classical singers) Sing lyrically in English, French, German, Italian and Latin

• (Contemporary singers) develop flexible, musical and expressive articulation